Nathan Eovaldi (7-2), another Houston native, yielded five hits and two runs with six strikeouts in six innings to give him a career-high seven wins.

New York managed just three hits through the first six innings and trailed 2-0 before Carlos Beltran and Garrett Jones had back-to-back singles with one out in the seventh to chase Houston rookie starter Vince Velasquez.

He was replaced by Will Harris (4-1), who was greeted with Young's shot to the Crawford Boxes in left field to put theYankees on top.

Young, who extended his season-long hitting-streak to nine games Friday, has nine homers, 33 RBIs and 14 multihit games in 25 career games at Minute Maid Park.

Carlos Correa had a run-scoring single in the third inning for Houston and an RBI single by Evan Gattis made it 2-0 in the sixth.